Who Counts The General Election Votes?
| Politics The UK general election votes are counted by volunteers who may or may not be paid volunteers. They are impartial and therefore are trusted not to do anything dodgy like miscount votes or underscore those that they do not agree or indeed to overscore those that they do agree with. There will be a large number of volunteers who count the votes in a single seat. If the votes are very close then there may be a recount, this is important to ensure that the small mistakes that inevitably creep in have not changed the result: when there is a majority of 20,000 then of course the odd mistake here and there does not count in the first past the post system where the winner takes all. However if there are a couple of hundred votes in it, then it is very important and therefore a recount will take place in that situation.
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